Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa
Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa

Author: Jan Low

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2015-10-28

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 1780644205

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Sweetpotato and potato are expanding faster than any other food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. There is growing investment in research to address bottlenecks in value chains concerning these two crops, and growing interest from the private sector in investing in them. This book addresses five major themes on sweetpotato and potato: policies for germplasm exchange, food security and trade in Africa; seed systems; breeding and disease management; post-harvest management, processing technologies and marketing systems; nutritional value and changing behaviours.

Notes of a Potato Watcher
Notes of a Potato Watcher

Author: James Lang

Publisher: International Potato Center

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781585441389

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"Native to the New World, the potato was domesticated by Andean farmers, probably in the Lake Titicaca basin, almost as early as grain crops were cultivated in the Near East. Full of essential vitamins and energy-giving starch, the potato has proved a valuable world resource. Curious Spaniards took the potato back to Europe, from whence it spread worldwide. Today, the largest potato producer is China, with India not far behind. To tell the potato's story, Lang has done fieldwork in South America, Asia, and Africa."--Jacket.